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President Smt Droupadi Murmu has urged the AIIMS faculty to launch an awareness drive on the issue of mental health to make people aware of this hidden sickness.
Lok Sabha has passed Demands for Grants of various ministries for 2025-26 in respect of the Union Budget. During the proceedings, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla applied the guillotine to pass the Demands for Grants for the Ministries, including Chemicals and Fertilisers, Power, Commerce and Industry, Housing and Urban Affairs, Information and Broadcasting and MSME.
Farmers to Receive Digital ID Cards for Govt Scheme Benefits: Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said.
India Expands Strategic Partnerships With more than 30 Nations: Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita said in Rajya Sabha.
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly has passed the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurement Amendment Bill to grant a four percent reservation to Muslims in public contracts. The amendment reserves four per cent of civil works contracts up to two crore rupees and goods and services contracts worth up to one crore rupees for the contractors of other backward classes from Muslim communities.
Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment organized a day-long ‘Purple Fest’ at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi.
In Punjab, over 3000 panchayats across the state have passed resolutions to support the Punjab Police’s ‘Yudh Nashian Virudh’ campaign.
Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader, Saurabh Bhardwaj has been appointed as the convenor of the party’s Delhi Unit.
Government of India has allocated Rs. 81 crore for the maintenance of national highways in Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh under the Short Term Maintenance Contract (STMC) and Performance-Based Maintenance Contract (PBMC) schemes for the financial year 2024-25.
Telangana 10th board exams begins, over 5 lakh students appearing.
Former chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Sreedhara Panicker Somanath was appointed an advisor (space technology) to the Andhra Pradesh government.
India proudly unveils the Vande Bharat sleeper train after completing rigorous trials recently. The 16-coach marvel emerged from ICF in Chennai, and Indian Railways oversees it.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast intense thunderstorm activity to continue over parts of East and Central India during the next 2 days.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)-Hyderabad on Friday issued orange and yellow alert, indicating thunderstorms accompanies with gusty winds, for multiple districts in Telangana State up to next week Monday, even as weather forecasters here have maintained that there are chances of light showers in northern parts of Hyderabad towards Friday night.
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LEGAL REPORT
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In Kerala, the protest by ASHA workers in Thiruvananthapuram entered its 40th day today. As part of the next phase of the protest, the hunger strike continues for the second consecutive day. The primary demand of the ASHA workers is an increase in their honorarium.
2. Maharashtra: Curfew partially relaxed in Nagpur after violence; 84 arrested.
3. Union Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi today objected to an Allahabad High Court’s Judge comments in an attempt to rape case and described them as inappropriate. She said such observations would send the wrong message to society.
4. In Punjab, seven associates of the radical preacher and Lok Sabha MP Amritpal Singh were produced before a court in Amritsar’s Ajnala, yesterday, under heavy police deployment. The court remanded them to police custody until March 25th.
4. Assam government has decided that all shops and business establishments will be allowed to remain open 24 hours in Guwahati, Dibrugarh and Silchar. Addressing a press conference, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, the state cabinet has approved a policy allowing shops and business establishments, except liquor outlets, to operate 24 hours a day in the capital city.
5. The CBI has arrested Uday Kumar, senior GM of Power Grid Corporation of India, for allegedly taking a bribe of ₹2.5 lakh from an executive of Mumbai-based KEC International to extend favours to the company.
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1. PM Modi hailed the milestone of India crossing one billion tonnes of coal production. In a social media post, PM Modi called it a remarkable achievement and said it highlights India’s commitment to energy security, economic growth and self-reliance.
2. Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal has called for a collective commitment from the government and the IT sector to achieve a 450 billion dollars in services export target. Addressing the inaugural session of NASSCOM Global Confluence 2025 in New Delhi, the Minister expressed confidence that in 2025-26, India’s services exports could surpass merchandise exports.
3. India’s first smart industrial city: In a major landmark for India’s growth story, India’s first smart industrial city is being built in Dholera, Gujarat. In the process of development, an international airport is being made in Dholera which will start functioning in July.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
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A Kannada film featuring a faculty member of Pondicherry University in a lead role has bagged the Karanataka Government award for “Best Family Entertainment Social Film.”
“Fourwalls”, written and directed by S. S. Sajjan has Pavithra, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing Arts at Pondicherry University, in a lead role opposite Kannada actor Achyuth Kumar.
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DEFENCE News
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Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh said that terrorism remains a dynamic and evolving challenge with threats increasingly transcending borders. The Secretary said this during the 14th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) Experts Working Group (EWG) on Counter-Terrorism in New Delhi.
2. Assam Rifles Organises Felicitation for 40 Candidates Selected for Territorial Army (TA) Battalion of Indian Army on March 20.
3. The Indian Army and Air Force are poised to acquire 250 BrahMos missiles, with the deal valued at approximately $2.4 billion USD.This acquisition is currently under review by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, and forms part of India’s military budget for 2024, which totals around $72 billion.
4. The Defence Ministry on Thursday approved the procurement of six additional Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C), which would be an upgraded version of the current two in-service India-developed systems called the Netra.
22 Mar (Saturday)
Vedic Ritu/ Shishir
Drik Ritu : Vasanta
पक्ष :: Krishnapaksh
(In Purnimanta calendar)
Vikram Samvat – 2081
Month : Chaitra 08
(In Amanta calendar)
Shaka Samvat – 1946
Month Phalguna 23
Nakshatra: Moola/
Purva Ashadha
Tithi : Ashtami/
Navami
Rahu 09:33 AM – 11:03 AM
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